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. 2023 May 8;52(5):1605–1632. doi: 10.1007/s10936-023-09945-4

Table 4.

Principal component analysis was conducted to explore narrative data structure at T0 (pre-training) and T1 (post-training)

T0Pre-training T1Post-training
Pattern matrixa Structure matrix Pattern matrixb Structure matrix
Component Component Component Component
1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2
MLU .858 .194 .868 .235  − .632 .074  − .625 .013
Omissions of morphosyntactic information  − .907  − .071  − .911  − .114 .893  − .044 .889 .041
Complete sentences .875 .054 .878 .096  − .828 .020  − .826  − .059
Cohesive errors  − .666 .432  − .645 .400 .814 .200 .833 .278
Coherence errors .323 .890 .365 .905  − .040 .831 .040 .827
LIUs .108  − .962 .062  − .957  − .041  − .895  − .127  − .898

Extraction method: Principal component analysis. Rotation method: Oblimin with Kaiser normalization

aConvergence for rotation performed in 5 iterations

bConvergence for rotation performed in 3 iterations

MLU Mean length of utterance; LIUs Lexical Information Units